- Cold War, Conspiracies, Open Library Staff Picks, Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character)
Cyclops is an action-adventure novel by Clive Cussler. This is the 8th book featuring the author’s primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt. A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men—Soviet cosmonauts. Dirk Pitt discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of U.S. industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba—and only Dirk Pitt can stop them. From a Cuban torture chamber to the cold ocean depths, Pitt is racing to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the Earth!
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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Clive Cussler, Oliver Cussler
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Hamilton, Círculo de Lectores, Goldmann TB
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Polish, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9781451621020
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“THE BLIMP HUNG MOTIONLESS in the tropical air, poised and tranquil, like a fish suspended in an aquarium.”
Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York, considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May, 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed. Cussler is an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that d
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